The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr, (Jan 15 1929-1968), US civil rights leader, clergyman; He eloquently led the non-violent Civil Rights movement, 1950-1968 and won the Nobel Prize, 1964.